Abstract
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan initiated ”Encouraging domestic firms to establish corporate R&D centers Program” in 2002. The program expected that domestic firms can gradually shift from manufacturing-centric activities to high value-added, R&D-centric ones. Little research had been undertaken to evaluate the impacts of the program since it was implemented. Based on a Delphi exercise, the opinions of well-representative experts on program's appropriability, effectiveness and impacts, and development strategy were collected. The results revealed: (1) the missions and objectives were appropriate; (2) the program has intrigued domestic firms to conduct more pre-competitive R&D; (3) the program goals could be achieved and (4) providing higher matching funds to risky and disruptive R&D is strongly suggested. Finally, some policy implications are provided